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And each brigade-commander1 must divide
into three parts whatever area his tribe has taken over, and the ships in the
same way, and then he must allot the thirds of his tribe in such a way that of
the whole space of the dockyards each tribe may have one area and each third of
a tribe a third of an area; so that you can know at once, if necessary, where
each tribe and each third of a tribe is stationed, who are the trierarchs and
what ships they have, and that so each tribe may have thirty ships and each
third of a tribe ten. For if we can only get this started, any detail at present
omitted （for it is perhaps difficult to provide for
everything） will be discovered by the actual working of the plan, and
we shall have a uniform system both for the whole navy and for every part of it.
1 Each of the ten taxiarchs commanded the infantry belonging to his tribe.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by C. A. Vince, M. A. and J. H. Vince, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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